STATE OF NEW YORK
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6582
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 17, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the prohibition of
double-bunked housing in correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 607
2 to read as follows:
3 § 607. Prohibition of double-bunked housing. 1. For purposes of this
4 section "double-bunked housing" shall mean the practice of inmate hous-
5 ing where bunk beds are used in a dormitory setting, with inmates resid-
6 ing in an open space and sleeping on bunk beds.
7 2. Upon the effective date of this section, the department is prohib-
8 ited from housing inmates using double-bunked housing practices in
9 correctional facilities. Any inmates housed in such double-bunked hous-
10 ing on the effective date of this section shall be moved to other hous-
11 ing accommodations provided that such accommodations are not located in
12 a more restrictive housing unit or correctional facility unless other-
13 wise appropriate.
14 3. The department is authorized to promulgate or repeal any rules and
15 regulations necessary to facilitate the implementation of this section.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02991-01-9
